PERSIAN ROSEBUD

(Horatio Nicholls)


Devonshire Restaurant Dance Band, Dir. Bert Firman
V. Maurice Elwin
Recorded 17th November 1927

Also recorded by:
Piccadilly Revels Band, Dir. Ray Starita
Harry Bid good & His Broadcasters, V. Cavan O’Connor



My Persian rosebud
Live on in Loveland for me
There grows no rosebud
Fairer, and rarer to see
Roses may come and live for a day
You are the one I’ll cherish for ay
I love you, my Persian rosebud
You’re the queen of my heart’s bouquet. 




(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM Record Collection
 by Bill Huntley -October 2013)